How's your heart?
How's your heart? Sounds like a weird question at first, until you understand it's meaning. I had a friend ask me that question and I had to take a quick second to think about my heart.... I feel like it is in good shape, not physically but spiritually.
So this one question has me thinking about where my heart is. If I had to think about it is it really where I want it to be? Is it in as good a shape as I think? Am I even aware of my heart as the day goes by? How much damage is their that I do not even realize? What can I do to get my heart pounding for God? What am I doing to kill it? What am I allowing to get to my heart that I shouldn't be? Who or what am I allowing my heart to hear? These are just some of the questions that I am starting to think about...
I know for me it is very easy to get caught up in life. It is so easy to let day after day run into each other and before you know it a month has gone by and you haven't really even done anything. I'm pretty sure that isn't how God designed us, I mean to just sit around or get in this routine of getting little or nothing accomplished. I think if your heart flat lines, as my friend was talking about, then you find yourself in Luke warm water.... God doesn't call us to Luke warm. I mean I heard it explained this way once... "If you put a frog in boiling hot water it will instantly jump out of the water, but if you put the frog in Luke warm water and slowly turn the temperature up the frog will not realize the slow temperature rising and it will eventually kill it". I think the same can be said for our spirit. I can't think of a single story in the Bible where God put a slow rising spirit on someone, can you? When God pours out his spirit it is red hot. I mean you have no chose but be put into action. You have to jump out of the water and act.
As I think about that action I don't think it is having so much energy that you don't know how to control it. I do not think God pours out HIS spirit for us to run around with no agenda. I think it is just excitement for HIM and HIS work. I mean I think God puts in us such a desire to move toward HIM that before we know it we have made a considerable move without even knowing it. Now in relationship to your heart..... When your heart is flat lined or cold it is the same as Luke warm as I mentioned before. When Gods spirit is poured out then it is alive and pumping with life. You find that you have so much more energy and compassion. Your outlook on life is positive and you have so much more to offer people, more patience, peace, love, gentleness.... All the fruits of the spirit.
I guess what this one questions is helping me with is to always be aware of where my heart is. Without it you can't use your gifts or passions that God has given you. You will only be able to fake it for so long before people will be able to see through that. So my question for you is the same as it was for me.... How's your heart?
God I pray that my heart is always full of your spirit. I do not want to flat line.... God help me be always aware of my heart, help me only hear what you want me to hear, help me pour out what you are pouring into me. You say to always be filled with the spirit, so I am going to pour out what you give me so that I can always be refilled. I just ask for your help in doing that, Amen.
So this one question has me thinking about where my heart is. If I had to think about it is it really where I want it to be? Is it in as good a shape as I think? Am I even aware of my heart as the day goes by? How much damage is their that I do not even realize? What can I do to get my heart pounding for God? What am I doing to kill it? What am I allowing to get to my heart that I shouldn't be? Who or what am I allowing my heart to hear? These are just some of the questions that I am starting to think about...
I know for me it is very easy to get caught up in life. It is so easy to let day after day run into each other and before you know it a month has gone by and you haven't really even done anything. I'm pretty sure that isn't how God designed us, I mean to just sit around or get in this routine of getting little or nothing accomplished. I think if your heart flat lines, as my friend was talking about, then you find yourself in Luke warm water.... God doesn't call us to Luke warm. I mean I heard it explained this way once... "If you put a frog in boiling hot water it will instantly jump out of the water, but if you put the frog in Luke warm water and slowly turn the temperature up the frog will not realize the slow temperature rising and it will eventually kill it". I think the same can be said for our spirit. I can't think of a single story in the Bible where God put a slow rising spirit on someone, can you? When God pours out his spirit it is red hot. I mean you have no chose but be put into action. You have to jump out of the water and act.
As I think about that action I don't think it is having so much energy that you don't know how to control it. I do not think God pours out HIS spirit for us to run around with no agenda. I think it is just excitement for HIM and HIS work. I mean I think God puts in us such a desire to move toward HIM that before we know it we have made a considerable move without even knowing it. Now in relationship to your heart..... When your heart is flat lined or cold it is the same as Luke warm as I mentioned before. When Gods spirit is poured out then it is alive and pumping with life. You find that you have so much more energy and compassion. Your outlook on life is positive and you have so much more to offer people, more patience, peace, love, gentleness.... All the fruits of the spirit.
I guess what this one questions is helping me with is to always be aware of where my heart is. Without it you can't use your gifts or passions that God has given you. You will only be able to fake it for so long before people will be able to see through that. So my question for you is the same as it was for me.... How's your heart?
God I pray that my heart is always full of your spirit. I do not want to flat line.... God help me be always aware of my heart, help me only hear what you want me to hear, help me pour out what you are pouring into me. You say to always be filled with the spirit, so I am going to pour out what you give me so that I can always be refilled. I just ask for your help in doing that, Amen.
posted by Andy Rainey at Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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